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A most amazing golf shot heard, and seen, round the world

June 20, 2022 by Stephen Altschuler Leave a Comment

I don’t know about you but the last time I was in a fairway bunker with 160 yards to the green (at Pacific Dunes), I was thinking more about just getting out than reaching the green. But when England’s Matt Fitzpatrick found himself in this situation on the last hole of the 2022 U.S. Open […]

Filed Under: Enlightened Golf, Famous Golfers, Golf, golf and the mind, The Majors, The PGA, U.S.Open

Why Long Pants?

May 30, 2022 by Stephen Altschuler 2 Comments

You don’t necessarily need to be intellectually smart to play good golf, which is true of most sports.  You just need to get the fundamentals of the swing down, learn how to chip and pitch, and figure out how to read and execute putts. Any moron can do that. You don’t need a college degree […]

Filed Under: Famous Golfers, Golf, Golf rules, Suggestions for golf, Women's golf

The Saudi Tour: Boom or Bust? And What About Phil?

May 21, 2022 by Stephen Altschuler Leave a Comment

Imagine if the Mafia decided to start a golf tour, offering millions to cash-strapped PGA players who jumped ship–players like Westwood, Garcia, Fowler, Norman, and Mickelson. Well the Saudis, yes the same country which birthed 19 of the 9/11 hijackers, and who murdered Washington Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi, and who just recently “allowed” women to […]

Filed Under: Famous Golfers, Golf, golf and the mind, Golf professional, golf values, Phil Mickelson, The Majors, The PGA, Tiger Woods

The Laboratory (and a special announcement about this newsletter)

April 16, 2022 by Stephen Altschuler Leave a Comment

When I was 14 and just starting learning golf, I used to practice, during Philadelphia winters, with a Whiffle ball in our living room. Sort of half swings with a Bobby Jones blade 9 iron. I got pretty good knocking that Whiffle over the living room couch and against the curtains…until…one day…when I got a […]

Filed Under: Famous Golfers, Fundamentals, Golf, Masters, mental game, Mindful golf, Practice, The Downswing, The Majors

Shaft Lean and Lag: More important pieces of the compression puzzle

March 11, 2022 by Stephen Altschuler Leave a Comment

Shaft lean is a sacred cow to tour pros, but is not well known or practiced by handicappers. And when done correctly, it is the main avenue to properly compressing the golf ball off the face of the club. But many handicappers are flippers, a term Lee Trevino uses to describe golfers who flip their […]

Filed Under: backswing, Downswing, Famous Golfers, Fundamentals, Golf, Mindful golf, Owning your swing, pace, Practice, Rhythm, Swing tips, The Downswing, Women's golf Tagged With: Dustin Johnson, Inbee Park, Jin Young Ko, Lee Trevino, Lydia Ko

What we can learn from…

February 20, 2022 by Stephen Altschuler Leave a Comment

Sahith Theegala had a great amateur career, won twice on the Korn Ferry Tour, but has never won on the PGA Tour, though he’s been in contention a couple times in this his rookie season. He drives to each tournament. His parents are immigrants from India. Sahith was born in Orange County, California. On Sunday […]

Filed Under: backswing, Confidence in golf, Course management, Downswing, Enlightened Golf, Famous Golfers, Fundamentals, Golf, golf and the mind, Golf Improvement, Golf professional, inspiration in golf, mental game, Mindful golf, Owning your swing, pace, Putting, short game, Suggestions for golf, The drive Tagged With: Bernhard Langer, Patrick Cantley, Sahith Theegala

Compression Obsession

January 15, 2022 by Stephen Altschuler 4 Comments

It’s one of golf’s not-so-dirty little secrets. The pros all do it but few show you how. So at the expense of vilification from my betters, I will attempt to explain this technique that I’m sure goes back to Tom Morris and son in the bonny town of St. Andrews. The key to compression lies […]

Filed Under: backswing, Downswing, Famous Golfers, Fundamentals, Golf, Golf Improvement, Owning your swing, Practice, St. Andrews, The Downswing, The drive, Women's golf Tagged With: divots, iron play, Jack Nicklaus, sweet spot

My Left Wrist: A key to consistent and powerful golf

January 7, 2022 by Stephen Altschuler Leave a Comment

The left wrist (right for lefties) is perhaps the most fragile and vulnerable of all of our bones. Though delicate, much is required of it–sometimes too much, and it breaks or sprains rather easily putting most of us out of commission for a good long period of recuperation. We golfers often take the left wrist […]

Filed Under: backswing, Confidence in golf, Downswing, Famous Golfers, Fundamentals, Golf, Golf Improvement, Owning your swing, Practice, Swing tips, Tiger Woods, Women's golf Tagged With: Daniel Berger, Jon Rahm

Tiger and Charlie

December 22, 2021 by Stephen Altschuler Leave a Comment

For me, it was uplifting, in this time of doom and gloom, to see Tiger and his son playing golf at the PNC father/child event, as well as others like 86 year old Gary Player, 82 year old Lee Trevino, ageless Tom Watson, Henrik Stenson and his 11 year old son, and the eventual winners […]

Filed Under: Balance, Confidence in golf, Downswing, Famous Golfers, Fundamentals, Golf, golf and the mind, Golf Equipment, Golf Improvement, inspiration in golf, mental game, Mindful golf, Owning your swing, pace, Practice, short game, Swing tips, The Downswing, The drive, The PGA, Tiger Woods

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